Short Short- The Plane

            They had been on the airplane for three hours already. Time was moving slow for the newlyweds. They had planned their dream wedding during the holiday season and couldn’t wait to spend their first night together as husband and wife in Italy. Allie sat with her hand intertwined in Michael’s and stared at the ring on her finger.

            “Mrs. Michael Taylor,” She whispered to herself.

            “I’m so happy with you,” Michael said.

            Allie smiled and ran her fingers through her hair.

            A baby started crying in the back on the plane. The mother stood up and started walking up and down the aisle with the baby. She passed Michael and Allie and smiled. From the look on her face, she was tired and worn out, but when she smiled, Allie knew she’d give everything up for her child.

            “I can’t wait to have kids with you Michael,” Allie said.

            “I think we can wait a little bit. I want to get settled as a married couple before we throw another person in the mix.”

            “Are you scared?”

            “You’ll be a great father. Don’t be scared.”

            “But babies are so fragile. I’ll break it.”

            “You won’t break ‘it.’ ‘It’ will be your son or daughter.”

            “I know. I just want to wait.”

            “We will handle whatever comes our way.”

            The plane started to shake and Allie squeezed Michael’s hand as hard as she could. She had never been on a plane before. This was her first time and she wasn’t prepared for anything to happen.

            “Relax, sweetheart. It’s just a little turbulence. I’ve been on planes plenty of times to know when something is really wrong or when it’s just a little turbulence. I’m sure the pilot has everything under control,” Michael said.

            “Just hold my hand and everything will be fine.” Allie said, worried about her flight.

            “Let’s just finish watching the movie. We’ll be in Italy soon.”

            Michael and Allie were watching Allie’s favorite movie, Titanic. She had always been obsessed with the love that Jack and Rose had after knowing each other for only a few hours. She wanted love like that and she found it in Michael.

            Finally relaxed, Allie had her eyes glued to the screen. She had forgotten about the turbulence and the crying baby until the plane started shaking again. She looked at Michael with heavy eyes. She was scared and he knew it. Michael put his arm around her and held her tight.

            “Don’t worry. It’ll stop like last time.”

            “I hope you’re right.”

            “Aren’t I always?” Michael said, sarcastically.

            Allie smiled at him. She knew Michael was always a sarcastic man and she loved that about him, but when she wanted him to be serious, he never was. She needed to be reassured that everything was going to work out perfectly.

            The plane started to decline faster and faster. Allie looked into Michael’s eyes. Her eyes screamed for help. Everyone else on the plane started to scream. Babies cried, adults cried. No one knew what was happening. No one could even think. The destruction on the plane caused chaos and overwhelmed everyone.

            “I’ll love you forever,” Allie said.

            “I’ll love you until the day I die,” Michael said.

Thanksgiving Break

All I can say is thank God for Thanksgiving break! I need this break more than anyone else I know. For some reason, this school year has just been so difficult. I’ve never had a difficult time being in class and doing my school work. I love learning and being in class, but not this semester. I am so happy this semester is over soon. My classes are fun and don’t bother me. I’m just not into doing the work.

I have so much work to do over break. It’s not even going to be like ill be on break. I wish I had a free day off, but I don’t. I tried to do my work on Saturday morning, but I got absolutely no where with it. I stared at it wishing it would finish by itself. I have to read, finish my story, and write a short-short for English class. I have to finish a chemistry lab. My chemistry lab is so difficult to do. Dan, a guy in my lab, who is a teacher’s helper or something like that, said the lab was even hard for him to do. That doesn’t make me feel too comfortable about having to do it by myself. I have to finish my biology lab. I have to do a lot of research for it. Thankfully, it won’t be too hard once all the research is done. I have to watch a movie for my religious studies class, read chapter 11 in the book, and write an essay on a movie of my choice that goes along with my religion class.

This is not a lot amount of work to do, but this is not what I want to do while I’m on break. I just want to do absolutely nothing for a week. I want to sit on my couch and catch up on episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Supernatural.

I hope this week I can start running again. I really miss running and working out and trying to stay in shape. I think my energy levels will go up and I will be able to hopefully get my school work done instead of waiting until the very last minute. I’ve never been the student to wait until the last minute, but I’m slacking this semester.

On a sadder not, Friday around three o’clock, I got an email about a kid that just graduated in May 2011, who died. It is absolutely horrible that he died. I didn’t personally know Kevin, but he was still a part of the Penn State community. It is a shame. I can’t imagine what his family is going through right now. Death always seems to strike when the holidays roll around. I will pray for him and his family. My thoughts and prayers go out to them.

I couldn’t imagine losing anyone that I’m close to. I thank the Lord every day for the blessings in my life.

much needed break

It seems like every time a break seems to get closer and closer more work is piled on students in school. I can’t even think about the amount of stuff I need to do before Thanksgiving break and during Thanksgiving break. All I want is a week off to do absolutely nothing. I don’t even want to think about school. Thankfully the year has gone pretty fast and it’s almost over. This semester was a bitch and still is.

I have a Chemistry test Monday and I’m mostly likely going to do horrible on it. There are always those questions that are on it that are never talked about. We aren’t told to look in the book for what we have to know. Whatever we do in class is what we have to know, but then there’s a question thrown at everyone and it just ruins my mood. I don’t like knowing before my grade is given to me that I got a question wrong. It absolutely pisses me off for the rest of the day and weekend depending on when the test is given. Hopefully this test goes well especially now that I can’t drop a class. I’m stuck with every class I have now and if I do bad, I’ll be so mad at myself.

I have to watch the movie Citizen Kane for my religious studies class. I was warned before class ended on Thursday that I’m going to hate the movie. I really do not have any motivation to watch it, but I have to. I am so glad this class is almost over. I’m ready to stop watching stupid movies every weekend for this class. Most of the movies haven’t been too bad outside of class, but inside the classroom, the movies we watch are horrendous. I don’t even know how half of the movies I’ve seen are made into movies. I don’t understand how people thought some of those movies would be a hit. They are just bad. Hopefully I can get through most of the movie and get ready for class Tuesday.

I have a Biology test on Thursday. Every Biology test is difficult in some way, but this one I feel like I know the least about which isn’t looking to good for me. I need to put so much time and effort into this class. From today until Thursday, my life will revolve around genetic code, transcription and translation of a gene, gene control, the endoplasmic reticulum, the golgi apparatus, and lysosomes. The tests are always fair and should be easy for anyone who knows their information like the back of their hand. It should be known at the snap of a finger for this class especially for those people who Biology majors, like myself. I have to have self control and sit down and study for hours.

This last week before break needs to go fast. Every student and teacher is probably itching to be done for the week. It’ll be such a peaceful week if I can get a lot done over the weekend before Monday, November 21^st is here.

Thursday, November 3rd

            Last week, I was able to schedule classes for next semester. Thursday night I was so tired by the time ten o’clock rolled around. I never stay up late during the school week. I like my sleep and after waking up early for school, I like to go to bed at a decent time. It was ten o’clock and I’m trying to stay awake. It was so difficult. I literally had to stay moving or I would have fallen asleep. Thankfully the time flew by and it was 11:45. I was so ready to schedule. I had every class I wanted ready to type the numbers in. When the clock struck 12 midnight, my computer froze and Elion had a problem. I received a message saying all bunch of shit, but in bold the website said Environmental Dump. I was freaking out! I wanted to schedule classes and get the times I wanted. There were only a few seats left in some of the classes I needed so I did my best to get on right away. It took me ten minutes to sign on again. This didn’t just happen to me, but I still got screwed when it came time for me to type in the numbers. I got three out of the five classes I wanted. I was so annoyed and now my schedule absolutely sucks. I had to set up my watch list and have it text me when someone drops the classes I want. No one has dropped them yet and I’m pissed. There has to be a better way to schedule classes. I cannot wait to be a senior and be the first to schedule. There are times when I wish I played a sport because athletes have first priority over everyone else. It’s a bunch of bullshit. I need my classes!

            Also on Thursday, I got my Biology grade back from my test. I got an 85. I was disappointed until I saw the average in the class. Not a single person in three sections got an A. Mostly everyone did horribly so an 85 was good enough for me at that point. After I was excited to see how I did on the test, I was given a pop quiz. I got a 40 on that. Not too excited about that one. I really hope I can do well on the next test and the final and hopefully we have more quizzes that I won’t do absolutely crappy on. My lab grades will hopefully help my grade come up a few points. I just want this semester over now!

            After I bombed my quiz and lab was over, I went to the orthodontist. I had my mouth open for two hours while they put my stupid braces on. They are such a pain in the ass. I never thought I would hate these so much. I’ve always wanted them and now that I have them, I wish I never got them. But I know they will help me, so I just have to get over it. I hope I’m not in them too long. I just hope it ends sooner than I think. The worst part about them is that I can’t eat what I want to eat the most. I am a candy freak. I love all kinds of candy and it is killing me to not eat it. Temptation is always in the back of my mind and it has only been three days, I don’t know how I’m going to survive if I can’t eat candy for a year! I will probably go into shock. I live off of candy.